Feedback from early work on implementing our new tool for measuring engagement in real time - EngageMe - suggests that line managers are more enthusiastic about it than Company Leaders and HRDs. This highlights the need for a new approach, aimed directly at people-managers, to complement - not replace -... read more →

As a fan of Harvard Business Review, I recently read an article regarding talent management; it was entitled, ‘How to hang on to your high potentials: Emerging best practices in managing your company’s future leaders’ (HBR, Oct 2011). The article started by stating that only 15% of businesses based in... read more →

It's not much talked about by HR professionals, but 'Job Crafting' represents a practical way to increase employee engagement. In a very recent http://bit.ly/zcYQuy, Tims, Bakker and Derks describe their own research that confirms that Job Crafting "... correlate(s) positively with … work engagement, employability, and performance." So what is... read more →

To follow on from my previous blogs looking at the turbulent economy, I wanted to address the issue of cutting benefits, which many organisations have had to do as a result of the recession. In reality, does cutting benefits damage employee engagement or can organisations make necessary cuts and still... read more →

There are numerous books written by ‘experts’ dictating to organisations how best to improve employee performance. However, more recently it has been made clear that amongst the competitive world of management solutions employee engagement seems to be the key to unlocking potential and increasing performance. Longitudinal research has shown that... read more →

As a member of the Psychological Testing Centre, I receive a publication called Assessment & Development Matters, published quarterly. I am a bit behind on my reading (!) and whilst sorting through some papers, I came across an edition from 2010 which caught my eye. The article was entitled ‘Why... read more →

When I have time, which isn’t as often as I would like(!), I try to keep up to date with the latest research related to employee engagement. Arnold Bakker is widely regarded as one of the key academics at the forefront of engagement research. He recently (2011) published a paper... read more →

In a recent article in the Journal of Industrial and Organisational Psychology entitled ‘Manage Employee Engagement to Manage Performance’, Saks and Gruman (2011) state that they ‘believe the best way to improve performance management in organisations today is to focus on employee engagement, which is a more proximal and controllable... read more →

Adrian C. Ott, an adviser on customer strategy and innovation, recently wrote a blog on the Harvard Business Review website. She titled the piece ‘Are scorecards and metrics killing employee engagement?’. What an interesting question, to which the answer, I suspect, is actually ‘yes’, although to my knowledge there is... read more →

This month’s Harvard Business Review has a really interesting article about using customers to motivate your workforce. If you are a regular of my blogs here, you will know I am a big fan of HBR and the latest edition, focused on innovation, is brilliant! In the article entitled ‘How... read more →